Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | Introduction plus 6 x 2 hour seminars plus tutorials |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | TWO ASSESSED ESSAY OF 4,000 WORDS | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | NEW ESSAYS ARE REQUIRED, ON DIFFERENT TOPICS |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to.
Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant historiographies from the Ancient world to the present, their evolution and the key problems currently addressed by historians in this field.
Identify the criteria used by historians for making valid comparisons between the historiographical traditions associated with different periods.
Discuss the interpretative problems and prospects associated with this topic.
Illustrate, analyse and evaluate the historiography in an extended written discussion.
Brief description
This seminar series has been designed to allow students to study the development of historical writing and the historical approach over a broad time frame. It will permit and expect students to engage with a variety of historical works, beginning with ancient and classical history and proceeding, by way of specific temporal units, to the modern era.
Aims
This module provides students with an overview of historical writing, chiefly in the west, over the last 2,500 years. It establishes, through a series of seminars, a broad chronology of development allied to an analysis of the nature and form of the historical endeavour across this broad period. A core aim of this module is to explore the ways in which the nature of historical writing has been formed and the influences which have influenced that formation.
Content
1. Ancient and Classical historiography
2. Medieval historiography
3. Renaissance historiography
4. Seventeenth-century historical writing
5. The Enlightenment and historical writing
6. Nineteenth-century historical writing
7. Twentieth-century historical writing
8. Historical writing beyond the West
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | Seminar discussion and essay writing. The latter is formally assessed. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Seminar and tutorial discussion; tutors' feedback. |
| Information Technology | Locating some journal articles electronically. Surveying the historiography of the subject using various search tools. Essay-writing and presentation |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Studying the module puts students in direct contact with librarians at the National Library and elsewhere in the course of researching essays and the development of the historiography |
| Problem solving | Demonstrating an understanding of the nature of an historiographical approach, and how this approach can be applied to the historical writing across this broad time frame |
| Research skills | Mainly concerns the location of secondary material. Assessed through the essays. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Develop a knowledge of, and familiarity with, a broad range of historical writing. |
| Team work | Seminar work |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7